Paintings/Painters
Grant Devolson Woods
"One work by this painter features three unattractive old women, while another shows a child with the adult head of George Washington. He used the Dibble House as a background for a portrait of a woman and her father, a farmer holding a pitchfork. Who painted Daughters of Revolution, Parson Weems' Fable, and American Gothic
Keith Allen Haring
"This artist created one sculpture, Boxers, in which red and blue figures punch through open holes in the other's mouth and stomach. In another work, a man is lowered upside-down into holes in the other's mouth and stomach. In another work, a man is lowered upside-down into the mouth of a monster, in a public mural proclaiming ""Crack is Wack."" Name this modern American artist, who got his start in graffiti."
Constantin Brancusi
"This artist distinguished himself as a wood carver while growing up in Romania. He studied under Rodin [roh-DAN] in Paris for only two months, and by 1908, he was working almost excusively as a carver. Name the sculptor, who is known most for his Bird in Space, finished in 1931, and his 1908 masterpiece called The Kiss." 1931, and his 1908 masterpiece called The Kiss."
Marc Zakharovich Chagall
"This artist evoked the crucifixion in the upper-right of a mostly blue stained glass work, his Peace Window for the United Nations. In his best-known work, a man with a scythe and an upside-down violinist appear next to each other on a canvas dominated by a goat staring at a green-faced man. Name this painter of I and the Village."
Ansel Adams
"This artist from San Francisco had no patience to develop any athletic talents like most boys, but he did develop a liking for nature. He made his first visit to Yosemite National Park in 1916 at the age of 14, and his dad gave him his first Kodak Brownie camera to shoot photos there.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck
"This artist painted an Italian diplomat adoring Mary and the infant Jesus, in one portrayal of a favorite subject, Abbé Scaglia [ah-BAY SKAHL-yah]. His 1635 triple portrait of a king executed during the English Civil War was the basis for a royal bust by Gian Lorenzo Bernini [jahn luh-REN-zoh ber-NEE-nee]. What Flemish painter worked at the court of Charles the First?"
Leonardo Da Vinci
"This artist portrayed Mary sitting in the lap of her mother and reaching for Christ, who is holding a lamb, in his "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne." In his "Virgin of the Rocks," an angel in green and red sits by John the Baptist and points past Mary toward a young Christ. What artist is perhaps best-known for his portrait of Lisa Gherardini [gayr-ar-DEE-nee], with her enigmatic smile?"
Jasper Johns Jr.
"This artist showed all 10 common digits overlaid with one another in his "0-9, 1960," one of his many numbers paintings. His best-known work was created by dipping shredded newspaper into encaustic wax, and allowing it to dry into a collage. What artist created the red, white, and into encaustic wax, and allowing it to dry into a collage. What artist created the red, white, and blue collage he titled "Flag"?"
Francisco De Goya
"This artist's No More shows a reclining general gazing at a hanged man, one of a series called ""The Disasters of War,"" which protested the cruelty of Napoleon's armies. He explored the same ""The Disasters of War,"" which protested the cruelty of Napoleon's armies. He explored the same theme in a painting in which a man in a white shirt raises his arms as he is fired upon by a line of men with muskets. What Spanish painter depicted ""the execution of the defenders of Madrid"" in his The Third of May, 1808?"
Edvard Munch
"This artist's best-known work may have a viewpoint set on Ekeberg [ECK-uh-berg] Hill. Another work shows a woman holding the hand of the artist's dying sister in The Sick Child. His unfinished ""Frieze of Life"" series includes a painting of a red and orange sky, which forms the backdrop to a man who holds his hands to his face in agony. What artist painted The Scream?"
Pierre-Auguste Renior
"This artist's son Jean [zhahn] directed the classic World War One film Grand Illusion. He painted A Girl With a Watering Can, and in his best-known work, his future wife wears a blue dress and plays with a small dog on a table adorned with many bottles of wine. Name the Impressionist who painted Luncheon of the Boating Party."
Alfred Stiglitz
"This man named his New York gallery after its Fifth Avenue address, 291. He used the gallery to display works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as well as photographs by a group he co-founded, the Photo-Secession. Name this photographer whose works include more than 300 pictures of his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe."
John James Audubon
"This painter and naturalist was born in 1785 in what is now Haiti, and he was educated in France. He came to America with his father's help to avoid being drafted into Napoleon's army, and he began studying and drawing American birds. Who was this one-time Kentucky businessman and self-taught ornithologist, best known for his book of paintings and drawings titled The Birds of America?"
Frida Kahlo
"This painter breathes a skull and set of corpses while lying in a bed whose sheets display planets or moons, in a work titled Without Hope. A watermelon displays the phrase ""Viva laVida"" in another work, while Love Embrace of the Universe shows her cradling her husband, Diego Rivera."
Sandro Botticelli
"This painter never married, and it is said the reason was his unrequited love for Simonetta Vespucci, an Italian noblewoman who was married. What Renaissance artist of Primavera and The Adoration of the Magi is said, nevertheless, to have painted Vespucci from memory in his 1486 masterpiece, The Birth of Venus?"
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroxic
"This painter showed Medea looking to the left out of a cave while holding her two children and a dagger. He is best-known for a painting that shows a boy holding two pistols to the right of a woman raising a French flag. Name the painter of "Liberty Leading the People.""
Pieter Cornelis Mondrian
"This painter used a circular arrangement of straight lines, T's, and crosses in his work "Pier and Ocean." His depictions of New York include one in which yellow lines and red and blue squares suggest traffic and the rhythms of jazz. Name the Dutch De Stijl [duh SHTILE] artist who painted "Broadway Boogie-Woogie.""
Whaam!
"This painting differs from its source by omitting a mountain on the lower left and using a blue background instead of the pink of the original. The original was painted by Irv Novick, included the words, ""The enemy has become a flaming star!,"" and appeared in DC Comics ""All-American Men at War" in 1962. Name this iconic pop art work, which is titled for the sound of missiles striking a plane, and was painted by Roy Lichtenstein.
The Persistence of Memory
"This painting's distant seaside cliffs were inspired by the coast of Catalonia, and appear above a fish in a quasi-sequel to this work that uses receding rectangles to show its ""disintegration."" This painting's best-known features are draped off of a table, over a tree limb, and across the This painting's best-known features are draped off of a table, over a tree limb, and across theback of a sleeping creature. Name this painting that includes melting clocks, by Salvador Dali."
GRAND JATTE [ grahnd zhaht]
A Claude Monet work depicting this location in "Springtime" shows a walking path parallel to a river, while a small boat is moored to that walking path in a canvas by another artist who shows it under "Gray Weather." In a third painting, a woman with a red parasol holds the hand of a white-clad child, while another woman in a purple hoop skirt holds the leash of a monkey. What Paris locale was shown on a "Sunday Afternoon" in a work by Georges Seurat [ZHORZH suh- RAH]?
Raphael
After this artist died, his assistants completed his commission for a fresco series on the life of Constantine. He showed Homer to the left of Apollo and the nine muses in a depiction of Parnassus, one of the frescoes he created in the Stanza della Segnatura [she-nyah-TOO-rah]. Who also painted a fresco of Plato and Aristotle having a conversation at "The School of Athens"?
Vienna Secession
All of the works in this artistic group's fourteenth exhibition were dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven. The periodical Ver Sacrum published the works of the group, which founded its own workshop in city from which it took its name. What group led by Gustav Klimt was named for its act of removing itself from academic art
La Pieta
Although many Italian artists used this word in the titles of their works, it is actually more of a concept that depicts an event in the life of Jesus Christ. Michelangelo's statue is probably the most famous one, but some art experts say Titian's [TEE-shunz] painting, circa 1575, is the most sublime. Give the Italian word for this concept, which shows Mary, the mother of Jesus, supporting the body of her dead son.
Courbet [KOOR-beh]
Although some think the visitors in his Burial at Ornans [ore-NAHN] are attending the burial of his grandfather, he described it as "the death of Romanticism." Known as the father of Realism, he tried to portray his subjects as they actually existed. Name this 19th-century artist, whose most famous painting is The Stone Breakers. (OLYMPIA)
Faberge [fah-bayr-ZHAY]
As proof you don't have to paint or sculpt to be an artist, this Russian made his masterpieces out of jewelry. Whose business was bestowed the title of "goldsmith by special appointment to the imperial crown" in 1885 by Czar Alexander the 3rd after it produced the first in a long line of jewel-encrusted Imperial Easter eggs?
Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych One of this artist's films only shows Robert Indiana eating a mushroom. He showcased American commercialism's emptiness in Eat, as well as in outlandishly colored silk-screened celebrity prints. Identify this pop artist, whose subjects included Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans.
David [dah-VEED]
Death of Marat, Death of Socrates In his Death of Socrates, he depicted the philosopher willingly accepting punishment by extending his hand to drink the hemlock. He also depicted a French propagandist as a martyr in his Death of Marat [mah-RAH]. Name this Neoclassicist artist.
Banksy
He directed the film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and uses a stencil technique to create many works, including one of a security guard holding a leashed dog with the message "Stop Me Before I Paint Again." A 2013 work by what graffiti artist featured a live boy shining Ronald McDonald's shoes?
Degas
He painted a man seated at a desk scattered with flower prints in his The Collector of Prints. In New Orleans Cotton Market, a man in a black coat and hat reclines and reads a newspaper in front of a table of the title commodity. what artist sculpted a statue of a tutu-clad dancer standing in the fourth position, titled The Little Dancer, Aged 14 Years
Van Gogh
He painted three versions of a scene in which a blue pitcher and bowl sit beneath a green- framed window, to the left of a red-blanketed bed. He also showed a broken cypress tree partly obscuring the village of Saint-Remy [sahn-RAY-mee] in a darkened scene based on what he saw from his asylum window. Who painted the work The Starry Night?
John James Audubon
He refined his artistic interests during two failed Kentucky business ventures. In his last years, he collaborated with John Bachman on Viviparous Quadrupeds [vy-VIP-uh-rus KWAD-ruh-pedz] of North America. Which American artist published a four-volume collection of the Birds of America?
VELAZQUEZ [vuh-LAS-kez]
His artistry influenced French painter Edouard Manet [mah-NAY], and later Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali paid tribute to him by recreating some of his best-known works. Name the painter of the 1656 masterpiece Las Meninas [may-NEE-nuss], who was the master of portraits in the Spanish Baroque period.
Rothko
Hiss early works include a Surrealist canvas in which thin black lines represent the title "Tentacles of Memory." His "White Center" and "Four Darks in Red" are more emblematic of his mature style, which centered on wide, rectangular blocks of single colors placed next to one another. Name this modern artist whose color field paintings decorate his namesake chapel.
(THE) PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
In 1848, a group of English painters got together to try to recapture a period of art before 1500. What was the name of this group, which rejected industrial themes for natural ones, and cited in its name the Italian artist who painted The School of Athens?
(PIERRE-AUGUSTE) RENOIR [ren-WAH]
In 1886, this artist re-worked The Umbrellas, which he had originally painted in 1881. He mastered shadow and light in Dance at the Moulin de la Galette [moo-LAHN duh la gal-ET]. Which Impressionist painted Luncheon of the Boating Party?
Nighthawks
In 2014, a Greenwich [GRIN-ich] Street restaurant changed its name to the title of this 1942 painting. It shows three customers and an employee in a fluorescent-lit diner after dark. Give the title of this Edward Hopper masterpiece.
Leonardo Da Vinci
In Lady With an Ermine by this artists, a blue-and-red clad woman holds a white-furred weasel. A painting of John the Baptist pointing upqard with his right hand, finished about 1516, is thought to have been his last work. Name the artist who painted the woman with the mysterious smile, the Mona Lisa
EAKINS [AY-kinz]
In Salutat by this artist, Billy Smith waves to the crowd at a boxing match. He portrayed a rower turning towards the viewer in Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. What American artist showed a Pennsylvania doctor lecturing during an operation in The Gross Clinic?
Bosch
In Ship of Fools, this painter showed a woman holding a lute arguing across a table with a friar, while another man climbs a tree growing out of the boat. He painting a triptych whose center depicts a group of bathers surrounded by a group riding fantastic animals, while the outer panel show Hell and Adam and Eve. Name the Flemish painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights
Edward Hopper
In Table for Ladies by this artist, a woman in white sets out fruits and meat in a window display while a black-clad cashier stares at her cash register. In his best-known work, cups of coffee sit in front of a man and a woman in red, who sit inside a building advertising "Phillies: Five Cents." Identify the American artist who painted Nighthawks.
Thomas Cole
In The Voyage of Life by this artist, an angel appears in a boat, on a riverbank, in the clouds, and floating above a skiff, as a male figure ages. He showed a circle of natives on a distant rocky outcropping in a work based on The Last of the Mohicans. What American landscape artist, who painted The Oxbow, was a member of the Hudson River School?
Joan Miro [hoe-AHN mee-ROH]
In a 1958 painting by this artist, a black, straight-lined asterisk star dominates the upper right, and a beige, yellow, and green background is studded with black dots. A 1961 painting shows a nearly vertical red line and a series of black, variously sized dots on a blue background. Name the Spanish Abstract Surrealist who painted Signs and Meteors and Blue Two.
Nighthawks
In a Banksy parody of this painting, a man in Union Jack boxers throws a chair into the window, while Elvis and Marilyn Monroe replace two of its original figures in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a parody by Gottfried Helnwein [HELN-vine]. It was inspired by a Greenwich Avenue location whose patrons include a woman wearing a red dress, sitting beside a suited man behind a counter. What painting of a building that advertises "Phillies: Five Cents" is a depiction of a late-night diner by Edward Hopper?
Degas
In his La Toilette [twah-LET], this painter depicted a discarded brush sitting to the right of a nude female, who holds her hair up as she combs it. In a work displaying his best-known subjects, one woman stretches her legs, while another reclines. Name the French Impressionist artist who painted Two Dancers Resting and Prima Ballerina.
Frida Kahlo
In one "retablo" [reh-TAHB-loh] by this artist, clouds obscure the bottom of a beige building above an inscribed legend, from which the words "Clare Booth Luce" were later stricken. In Love Embrace of the Universe, Earth, two arms of different races embrace a scene that includes a man with a third eye in his forehead being cradled by this artist, who was his wife. What painter of The Suicide of Dorothy Hale was a Mexican Surrealist married to Diego Rivera?
Courbet [KOOR-beh]
In one of his paintings, a kneeling man wields a hammer, while behind him a laborer carries a basket of stones. In another work, a gray-coated man stands by a white dog and faces members of the clergy across a grave, which the artist said was a realistic depiction of his great-uncle's funeral. Name the French Realist who painted The Stone-Breakers and Burial at Ornans [or-NAHN].
Rembrandt
In one of his paintings, a man in a red bonnet washes the feet of a nude female who sits on a low couch draped in white fabrics. In addition to Bathsheba at Her Bath, one painting depicts a young girl staring at a central figure who is draped in a red sash. Another shows a group of men staring at the exposed muscles of an arm during a lecture. Name this painter of both The Night Watch and The Anatomy Lesson.
Rubens
In one of his paintings, a seated figure, while gazing at three women, holds out a golden apple. He also created a cycle of 24 works that include Birth of the Dauphin and Coronation in Saint- Denis, as well as a work in which three men on horseback are hunting a river-dwelling creature. Name this Flemish Baroque artist of the Marie di Medici cycle, who painted The Judgment of Paris and The Hippopotamus Hunt.
Turner
In one of his works, Fishermen at Sea, a single shaft of moonlight illuminates a tiny boat tossed among the waves. In another, a bridge extends into the lower right corner of the canvas, and is crossed by a shrouded locomotive of the Great Western Railway. Identify this British Romanticist, who gave his name to an annual prize, and whose works include Rain, Steam, and Speed and Ivy Bridge.
FRAGONARD [zhahn aw-naw-RAY fra-guh-NAHR]
In one of this artist's paintings, young cupids hold a cup out to a male and female figure, who lean forward to drink the waters of The Fountain of Love. A woman leans to her right to receive a peck on her cheek in his work The Stolen Kiss. What French Rococo painter shows a pink-clad woman kicking off her shoe in a work titled The Swing?
Titian
In one of this artist's works, cherubs cavort in the sky as a white bull carries away the title woman. He called his mythological paintings his "poems." Identify this painter of The Rape of Europa, the dominant figure of the Venetian School.
Peasants
In one painting, a red-clad one of these individuals points over his right shoulder at a boy raiding a bird's nest. A man holds a jug in front of a piper while a man with a spoon in his hat kicks his left leg back in a work showing a "dance" of these people, while two people carry a tray of food in a painting showing a "wedding" of these people. Name these people, often painted by Pieter Bruegel [BRYEU-ghel] the Elder, who were commoners.
Gauguin [go-GAN]
In one self-portrait by this artist, a hand comes from the bottom of the canvas to grasp a vine that ends in a swan with a yellow body, while his semmingly disembodied head sits in front two apples. A woman sits on a blue cloth behind a bowel of exotic fruit in his The Seed of the Areoi, one of the numerous Primitivist paintings he completed after leaving France. What painter of Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? completed many of his best works in Tahiti?
Vermeer
In one work by this artist, a woman in blue stands before a table, fixated on the document in her hands. He typically depicts intimate interior scenes, as in Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Identify this 17th century master Dutch painter, who created Girl with a Pearl Earring.
(Georgia) O'Keefe
This artist's late work featured abstract skyscapes as viewed from an airplane window. Other works, such as Canyon Country, demonstrate her affinity for her chosen home in the American southwest. Identify this New Mexico artist, who often painted bleached skulls.
VELAZQUEZ [vuh-LAS-kez]
In one work by this painter, several male figures look toward the beaming red-clad figure on the left, who wears a garland of olive branches. The artist also depicted Philip the Fourth clad in a black cloak, but is best known for his portrait of Philip's daughter, Maria Theresa. Name this Spanish painter of Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan and Las Meninas [may-NEE-nahs].
Rembrandt
In one work, this artist showed a maid washing the feet of the wife of Uriah, who holds a letter in her right hand. He also painted a group of seven men looking at a volume of "On the Fabric of the Human Body," as a man in a black hat uses forceps to show the musculature of a cadaver's left arm. Who painted "Bathsheba at Her Bath" and "The Anatomy Lesson"?
Sunrise
In the bottom of this painting is a signature bearing the artist's name and the number "72," while in the center two figures row a boat across the harbor of La Havre [lah HAHV-ruh]. The title event is represented by an orange dot surrounded by an area of pale blue, while above is a wash of yellow. In what painting, whose title gave its name to a late nineteenth-century art movement, does Claude Monet depict the dawn?
The Gross Clinic
In the lower left of this painting, a viewer of the action turns away in disgust, while a man sitting above him takes meticulous notes. The central figure in this work holds a bloody scalpel while he lectures, as three men to his left examine an incision in the patient's leg. What painting by Thomas Eakins shows Dr. Samuel Gross's operating theater?
El Greco
In this artist's Assumption of the Virgin, men stand around an open coffin as Mary ascends towards a group of angels. That painting was part of a large commission Toledo's [tuh-LAY-dohz] Church of Santo Domingo gave him. Which master of the Spanish Renaissance was born on the island of Crete?
Vision After the Sermon
In this painting, a group of modestly-clothed women pray for the figure in their hallucination. Their shared vision appears in the upper right corner, where a man in black grapples with a winged figure. Identify this Synthetist [SIN-thuh-tist] work, which depicts Isaac's son battling a heavenly messenger, by Paul Gauguin [go-GAN].
Washington Crossing the Delaware
In this painting, reading horses threaten to upset a Durham boat, which the artist mistakenly made too small. The painting, which appears in the background of Grant Wood's Daughters of Revolution, shows chunks instead of sheets of ice, and portrays James Mondroe holding an anachronistic stars and stripes flag. what depiction of a surprise attack on Tenton was painted by Emanuel Leutze?
The Anatomy Lesson
In this painting, the only man clad in a black coat leans forward, causing his ruffed collar to shade the face of a corpse on a table. A textbook in the lower right is opened to face the other surgeons in the painting. What work, in which a doctor discusses a dissected corpse, was painted by Rembrandt?
Jesus
Last Supper In a Caravaggio [kair-uh-VAH-jee-oh] painting, this figure points at a group of men caught in a shaft of yellow light. In a Tintoretto painting, he kneels in front of a bearded man in a washtub, while Matthias Grünewald [muh-TEE-us GREW-ni-vald] depicted him blindfolded and "mocked. " Which historical figure sits in the center of a table in da Vinci's Last Supper?
Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People In this artist's The Death of Sardanapalus [sahr-duh-NA-pull-us], a reclining figure watches his slaves' murder as a prelude to his own suicide. His best-known work is an allegorical representation of the July Revolution. Which French artist painted a topless woman carrying a flag and a gun in Liberty Leading the People?
Jackson Pollock
Lucifer, Red, Black, Silver One late work, The Deep, by this artist features a nearly vertical black region crossed by jagged white lines and highlighted with yellow. A 2006 documentary tells how truck driver Teri Horton tried to authenticate what may be a painting by this student of Thomas Hart Benton. What American Abstract Expressionist, whose works include Lucifer and Number 5, 1948, was known for his "drip paintings"?
Durer
Melancolia, I A red-clad man kneels opposite a black-clad Virgin Mary, who holds out a squirming Christ-child in this artist's depiction of The Adoration of the Magi. The ***** of Babylon and The Four Horsemen are images from his "Apocalypse" woodcut series. In another engraving, a despondent angel sits in front of a magic square. What Renaissance artist, who created Melancolia I, was a native of Nuremberg, Germany?
The Blue Rider
Occurring alongside, yet contrasting, the Die Brücke [dee BROO-kuh] style, this artistic movement featured a group of artists who pursued spiritual representation in art as a rejection of materialism. Landscapes painted by Gabriele Münter [gah-BREE-el-uh MOON-tur] and groups of people depicted by August Macke [OW-goost MAH-kuh] exemplified this style. Identify this association of Russian- born and German artists, inspired by the namesake painting by Wassily [VASS-il-lee] Kandinsky.
The Ambassadors
On the right side of this painting, a figure in black leans his right arm on a shelf, while the man on the left is garbed in red sleeves and a coat lined with white fur. A lute, a hymnal, and a globe are among the items arrayed on the shelves between them, while at the bottom is a distorted shape that appears as a skull when viewed from the correct angle. Identify this depiction of two diplomats by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Sandro Botticelli [bot-ih-CHELL-ee]
On this painting's left side, a rain of pink blossoms surrounds a winged male carrying a woman. On the right, a standing woman holds a pink cloak out to the central figure. Name this profile of a nude woman in a seashell, the masterwork of Sandro Botticelli [bot-ih-CHELL-ee].
Dogs Playing Poker
One of Goya's "Black Paintings" depicts the head of one of these creatures looking upwards from behind a brown slope that concels its body. Sixteen works for Brown & Bigelow by artist C.M. Coolidge center on these creatures, while a George Stubbs portrait of one actually shows a dingo. What animals did Coolidge depict seated around a table and playing poker?
Toulouse-Lautrec
One of this artist's paintings, La Blanchisseuse [blawn-shee-SIRZ], set a record when it sold for 22.4 million dollars at a Christie's auction in 2005. What French artist of the turn of the 20th century was famous for his depiction of Parisian nightlife, especially at the Moulin Rouge [moo- LAN roozh]?
Broadway Boogie Woogie
One small red area in this painting's lower left is slightly off from an exactly lined-up meeting point, while its upper right quadrant is dominated by two areas of blue that surround a red rectangle with a yellow center. The syncopations inherent in the title type of jazz partly inspired this work in which blue, red, and white squares travel along yellow "roads." Name this neoplastic representation of New York City, a work by Piet Mondrian [peet MOHN-dree-un].
Diego Rivera
Rockefeller Center commissioned this artist's Man at the Crossroads, but destroyed it after they realized it depicted Vladimir Lenin. He is best known for his large scale frescos and murals. Identify this Mexican artist, the one-time husband of Frida Kahlo.
Berthe Morisot
She was married to the brother of Edouard Manet [mah-NAY]. Like Manet, she created many scenes en plein air [ahn pleh NAIR], and many of her paintings include a woman with either a man or child. Name this Impressionist artist of Villa at the Seaside and The Cradle.
Grandma Moses
She was named Mademoiselle magazine's Young Woman of the Year in 1948 -- quite a feat for someone 88 years old. The Old Checkered Inn in Summer and Sugaring Off were two artworks depicting rural American life by what painter, who died in 1961 at the age of 101?"
Les Demoiselles D'avignon
Some figures in this painting were inspired by African masks, while others show influences from Iberian sculptures. It is a fractured scene, depicting five nude female prostitutes seductively posed in front of a multicolored curtain. Name this Proto-Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso.
Cezanne
The Card Players Although he died in 1906, this French painter is often called the father of modern art. He usually produced works of landscapes, such as Village Road, Auvers [awn-VAYR], in 1873, but occasionally painted human subjects, as well. Who was this artist, who finished a famous painting called The Card Players in 1892?
(PETER PAUL) RUBENS
The Hippopotomus hunt In one work by this artist, two men on horseback prepare to spear the namesake animal as it tramples two other men. In one series of paintings, he depicted the wife of Henry the Fourth and mother of Louis the Thirteenth. Which Flemish Baroque artist created The Hippopotamus Hunt and the Marie di Medici series?
Thomas Gainsborough
The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, The Blue Boy "This artist painted a girl reaching for an insect on a thorny bush in "The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly." He painted a landscape portrait of "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews," but is best-known for a portrait that likely depicts Jonathan Buttall, nicknamed for the subject's color of clothing. Name the English artist who painted "The Blue Boy.""
Degas
The Rehersal on Stage and A Little Dancer Age 14 In one of this artist's works, reclining gentlemen in coats and top hats observe a number of women in white dresses. He portrayed his favorite subject in The Rehearsal On Stage, and a wax sculpture of A Little Dancer Age 14. Which French Impressionist was especially fond of ballet scenes?
Starry Night
The village in this work may have been inspired by Saint-Rémy [sahn ray-MEE] or by the artist's Dutch hometown. Its foreground features a towering cypress, but other points of interest include Venus and the Moon. Identify this Vincent van Gogh masterpiece.
Remmington
This American artist's realistic style derived from his work as a news reporter. He illustrated scenes from the Spanish-American War, including battles in which his friend Theodore Roosevelt fought. Identify this artist, who depicted the American West in Bronco Buster.
Pablo Picasso
This artist painted a lanky old man, bent over and strumming an upright instrument, in The Old Guitarist. Like that work, his Portrait of Suzanne Bloch relied on a certain cool color. Which artist expressed his depression during his 1901 to 1904 Blue Period?
VELAZQUEZ [vuh-LAS-kez]
This artist painted a portrait of his royal patron "in Brown and Silver." He included himself in the background of The Maids of Honor, or Las Meninas [meh-NEE-nas]. Identify this court painter of Philip the Fourth, a leading figure of the Spanish Baroque era.
Gericault
This artist used facial expressions to portray mental illnesses such as kleptomania in one series of works. In another work, a despondent man stares blankly while clinging to a corpse with his left hand, and sits opposite two other survivors who wave red and white cloths in the air. Name the French Romantic artist who painted The Raft of the Medusa."
Thomas Cole
This artist was the first person to apply European Romantic painting traditions to American landscapes. He set many of his works in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. Who founded the Hudson River School?
(ROY) LICHTENSTEIN [LICK-tun-steen]
This artist's Atom Burst depicts a musroom cloud surrounded by a field of blue dots. One of his best known works features a fighter plane on the left shooting down another plane on the right. Identify this American pop artist, who, in works such as Whaam!, recreated panels from comic books.
Pablo Picasso
This creator of modern art's first collage — Still Life with Chair Caning — turned to assemblage [a- sahn-BLAZH] in Maquette [muh-KET] for Guitar. His works span the Synthetic and Analytical eras of the style he co-founded with Georges Braque [ZHAWRZH BROCK]. Identify the Cubist artist of The Old Guitarist.
Degas
This man's best-known sculpture was originally cast in wax with a skeleton made from paint brushes. He incorporated gauze, silk, and other fabric into the sculpture, which was bronzed after his death. Name the Impressionist artist of Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.
Anthony Blunt
This man's books included surveys of French Renaissance architecture and the works of Nicolas Poussin [poo-SA]. He became director of the Courtauld [cor-TAWLD] Institute two years after he was placed in charge of the royal art collection. Identify this British art historian, better known for his work as a Soviet spy.
Belgium
This modern-day country was home to Hendrick Avercamp, a painter during its Golden Age, along with Frans Hals. Another of its renowned artists depicted the lives of peasants in such works as "The Egg Dance," "The Peasant Wedding," and "Hay-Harvest." Name this home country of Pieter Bruegel [BROY-gul] the Elder, who painted its proverbs.
Mirror
This object is paired with "Corpse" in the title of portrayals of crosshatchings by Jasper Johns. Jan van Eyck may be one of the two figures who appear in one of these objects hanging next to gold beads in van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait. Toward what type of object does Norman Rockwell gaze into in his Triple Self-Portrait?
Frida Kahlo
This painter breathes a skull and set of corpses while lying in a bed whose sheets display planets or moons, in a work titled Without Hope. A watermelon displays the phrase "Viva la Vida" in another work, while Love Embrace of the Universe shows her cradling her husband, who has a third eye, and invokes her native Mexico. Name this Surrealist painter, the wife of Diego Rivera.
